{"id":10576,"date":"2014-04-16T11:46:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T11:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/04\/16\/rising-unemployment-figures-scupper-downward\/"},"modified":"2014-04-16T11:46:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T11:46:39","slug":"rising-unemployment-figures-scupper-downward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/16\/rising-unemployment-figures-scupper-downward\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising unemployment figures scupper downward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Birmingham Chamber Expressed Concern<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"middle\" width=\"570\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/unemployment-fall-570x225.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>West Midlands business leaders expressed concern following today\u2019s announcement that unemployment in the West Midlands has risen to 8.2 per cent in the quarter from December to February, up from 8.1 per cent in the previous three months bringing the region\u2019s total number of unemployed to 224,000.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Tim Pile, president of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Group said: \u201cThis is disappointing news when previous figures have shown a downward trend.\u00a0 The Midlands remains third only to the North East and the Humber in the unemployment league. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe West Midlands has been disproportionately affected by unemployment during the recession but we have begun to see a return to stronger regional growth, with members telling us they will be taking on more staff.\u00a0 Although what is hindering companies is the high skills deficit.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThe Chamber is actively working on a skills campaign which will forge stronger links between business and schools. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThrough working together with all the local further education colleges, the Chamber has formed a Further Education Consortium to ensure that students are engaged at a younger age.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham Chamber Expressed Concern &#13; West Midlands business leaders expressed concern following today\u2019s announcement that unemployment in the West Midlands has risen to 8.2 per cent in the quarter from December to February, up from 8.1 per cent in the previous three months bringing the region\u2019s total number of unemployed to 224,000. &#13; \u00a0 &#13; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}